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GOBIO. 
Tms genus resembles Cyprinus in possessing barbels at the mouth; 
but it differs in having the dorsal and anal fins short, and in not 
possessing those spines in front of these fins by which the last-named 
genus is distinguished. The body also is more lengthened. 
GUDGEON. 
Golio fluviaiilis, Jonston; Table 26, f. 16 and 17. 
Willoughby; PI. 28, f. 4, p. 264. 
Cyprinus Golio, Linnbjus. Bloch; PI. 8, f. 2. 
*' Donovan; PI. 71. Jenyns; Manual, 
p. 405. 
Golio Jluvicttilis, Pleming; Br. Animals, p, 186. 
“ Taeeell; Br. Fishes, vol. i, p. 371. 
Gudgeons delight in such of our rivers as flow with moderate 
velocity over a bottom of gravel, with deeper pits at convenient 
distances; in the latter of which they obtain shelter in the 
colder seasons of the year, hut as warm weather advances they 
pass into the more rapid districts of the stream, and there 
display considerable activity, but more by night than by day; 
and especially in the search after food, in hunting for which 
their open nostrils afford them quick perception; and when 
an angler produces his baits they flock together in troops 
with proverbial eagerness to be caught. Their small size is 
indeed an hindrance to their being regarded as a valuable 
capture, although they are esteemed as a delicacy for the table, 
and their readiness to take the hook is an objection with those 
wdiose pleasure is to meet wdth Ashes Avliich task their skill in 
the art of angling. But to the less ambitious fishing for Gudgeons 
produces a good degree of excitement; and when the fish have 
ceased to bite Ifecly, from perhaps the success that has lessened 
